July 03, 2009

One hump or two?

I understand why Obama is letting Congress take the lead on crafting health care reform; he's taken a lesson from the 1993 debacle when Congress was presented with a complicated package and never voted on it, and if Congress writes the reform its authors will be more inclined to fight for it. But I can't help thinking of the old line about camels: they're horses designed by committee.

I worry that whatever emerges is going to be either terribly watered down to reach the lowest common denominator or it's going to be so packed with givebacks to the big-money special interest groups that it won't do the job it should: ensure that the 47 million Americans who don't have insurance can get coverage, and ensure that the rest of us won't be sandbagged by private insurance companies who deny us coverage when we need it most.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 3, 2009 08:24 AM | TrackBack
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